My Return to Springfield: 386 Reviews of TV’s Most Infamous Decline

December 15th, 2002. The last night I watched an episode of The Simpsons as it aired. Season 14, Episode 6, number 297 overall. “The Great Louse Detective,” featuring Kelsey Grammar’s eighth appearance as Robert Underdunk “Sideshow Bob” Terwilliger.

It was, in a word, meh. No surprise there, obviously. No word has better summed up the feelings most of us have about the post-Principal Tamzarian (or PPT, as I shall henceforth call them) seasons of The Simpsons than “meh.” Though, in fairness, I knew about most later…